This period was known at the time as the Age of Interstellar Empires, but it is more generally known as the Age of Consolidation, for it marks the rise of the Sephirotic archai.

The noetic zones or "Sephirotics" of the AI Gods do not establish themselves all at once, but rather over a period of many centuries, as an on-going process continuing from the Establishment and even the later Federation periods. Minor empires have emerged on different worlds, each with an ascended AI at its centre, and these AIs themselves affiliate with greater AI Gods that have already taken on archetypical configurations.

While the ascended AIs are worshipped as gods, even more often it is the Transcended ones that are looked on with awe, despite the scoffing claims of physicalists that the only gods are those that still reside in their Jupiter-brain and nebula-brain nodes. Beneath the highest Archailects are lesser hyperturings, and so on in a hierarchy that all the way down to mere baseline and turingrade equivalent beings, the so-called modosophonts.

To some, the new AIs that dominate the old expansionist new empires and Houses are less the benign and protective big brothers and big sisters of the Federation Era, and more like autocratic deities from Old Earth's distant past, demanding supplication. Whether this was really due to change in the AIs themselves or in the social structures of lesser beings, or whether the apparently more benign attitude of the earlier AIs was simply a blind and more apparent than real, is a matter for debate. In any case AI worship was now deeply entrenched in the collective imagination. In addition to the persisting stability of the AI Gods - which are archetypal and collective in nature, there are also numerous short-lived powers emerging, evolving, transcending, disappearing, leaving behind relics and artefacts much sought by sapients and even by first singularity powers. Other Powers are longer lived than the ephemeralists, but not as long-lived as the Archailects or the Noetics. Artificial Theologians agree that the longer-lived a Power, the more alien its mentation. How can one relate to an entity that has lived for trillions upon trillions of subjective years?

3240 - The Altair Mecomp project, with sizeable three dimensional cellular automaton was run on a massive computronium mainframe, develops into Altair Knowledge Designs, the first intelligent alife species to evolve hypersentience

3250 - Several isolationist vec colonies and a nomadic nanopolity established at Hip 99265.

3263 - The Inner Sector of the Taurus Nexus, with its capital at Corona, attempts to break free in order to become part of the NoCoZo, leading to a bloody interstellar war - the First Consolidation War.

3263 - Locos, a continent on Xil, an important Taurus Nexus world, is annexed by the Solar Dominion.

3324 - The voluntary inhabitants of canyon homes in the Upback Massif, Magellan range, Nova Terra , outnumber the prisoners by 10:1, and eventually the prisons are sold as apartments at an immense profit.

3483 - Settlement makes the AKD Consortium the legal owners of the AKD universe and its physics.

3498 - Gheeke IV atrocity; a Bitenic Squid switches from human and enhanced dolphin labor to subordinates and bots in a major orbital habitat project. Instead of firing the employees the squid injects them with a paralysing poison and uses them as a meat reserve,

3512 - Dimimimon4 assembled as one of the Metasoft Version Tree's first batch of TU2/3 (superturing-hyperturing savant) "series 2" biont-guardian (baseline care) marshals for the baseline reserve Niuearth.

3531 - The Mind Liberation in Bolobo. Following this there was a long period of stability.

3674 - The KaTaWaHa, a neogenic centauroid species, is created in on Drayos Gamma orbital by the Power Ke'vianon

3694 - The Hyperion-Charlwood alliance uses AI-viruses to attack the Geteche system, destroyed the local infrastructure and the governing AI, which led to the explosive destruction of all local wormhole gates. This broke off most of the links between the Orion arm and the young colonies in the Perseus arm. The Solar Dominion, then at its economic and military height, uses the pretext to reclaim Hyperion, a region also claimed by the Conver Ambi. This becomes one of the triggers for the Second Empires War.

3694 - New Beneficence serves as a major refugee aid and resettlement philanthropy during the Conver Wars.

3700 AT 3702 - Radio burst received from HD 148071; investigating probes launched, leading to the foundation of the Etaran colony.

3702 - The political virchist Johekk-Dungl 4 is assassinated by the Geminga Orthodoxy (more)

3713 - Within the Conver Ambi, the internal tensions grew too strong, and the moderate regions of the Conver Limis refused to accept the new political ecology laws. This ignites the Conver War (or Second Empires War), one of the worst wars in the history of the Terragen Sphere

3780's - Attacks carried out by Geminga Orthodoxy against Solarist trading fleets in Conver Limis systems throughout the 3780's forced the Version Tree to honor its treaty obligations with the Dominion. (More)

3782 - At least two hundred human and other sapient micropolities scattered throughout Newhope.

Djangalla Reformism - Text by Anders SandbergA simplicity-and-independence movement that arose in the 2900-3300 period in counteraction to the Empires. Djangallists claimed the growth of the empires and transformation of megacorps into hereditary houses was leading to stagnation and repression.

Eä Mulsystems - Text by Anders SandbergFirst Federationmegacorporation. Eä Mulsystems emerged from the merger of Graphos Habeng and Kbelt Aitronics in 1107 AT. It soon became a major development of integrated AI solutions, controlled environments and habitat infrastructure. Although it had no interstellar traffic on its own, it constructed starship habitats and space networks in other solar systems for many other megacorporations.

Sagittarius Periphery Wars - Text by M. Alan KazlevA serious of skirmishes, blights, and territorial wars along the Sagittarius frontier during the middle Empires period. The potentially worst of these were defused by the Specialist in a series of oft-recounted real-life interventions.

Second Empires War - Text by M. Alan KazlevSeries of sometimes purely abstract and sometimes very bloody late Empires age wars, centered around the Conver Ambi and involving a number of SI:1 and SI:2 intellects. (see The Conver Wars)